Federal prosecutors announced Friday that they won’t file charges against a white police officer who shot Jacob Blake in Wisconsin last year — a shooting that sparked protests that led to the deaths of two men.
State prosecutors decided not to file charges against Sheskey earlier this year after video showed that Blake, who was wanted on a felony warrant, was armed with a knife.
“Accordingly, the review of this incident has been closed without a federal prosecution,” the Justice Department said in a news release. “If we had a heart to be broken, it would be,” he said. “But because we've been through all we've been, we're not.”determination in JanuarySheskey and other officers encountered Blake after they responded to a call from a woman who reported that her boyfriend wasn't supposed to be at her home. When they arrived at the scene the woman told them that Blake was trying to her kids and her SUV.Blake fought the officers as they tried to take him into custody.
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